148 aphorismes de George Washington

[With shutters clicking and flashes popping, Wilson demanded anew that Rove be fired.] I made my bones confronting Saddam Hussein and securing the release of over 2,000 Americans in hiding in Kuwait, … Karl Rove made his bones doing political dirty tricks. This is not about Joe Wilson.

[Many Founding Fathers wrote extensively on the subject. Thomas Jefferson said,] What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. … A free people ought to be armed.

[Katrina has prompted Bush to make vaulting promises.] As we clear away the debris of a hurricane, let us also clear away the legacy of inequality, … what a lot of Americans saw was … some poverty that they had never imagined before, and we need to address that.

[Even the country’s first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution.] From the nature of the Constitution, … I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto.

[As the issue was being debated, George Washington wrote to Lafayette in Paris with the observation that] It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the delegates from so many different states (which states you know are also different from each other in their manners, circumstances and prejudices) should unite in forming a system of national government, so little liable to well founded objections.. … We are not to expect perfection in this world.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered… deeply, …finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and proprie